Browsing Topic Best Midlife Quotes

Midlife is when you reach the top of the ladder and find that it was against the wrong wall.

Men are much simpler mechanisms than women. Nothing changes them …even when they have a midlife crisis, they do it in a mindless way… that’s why I think we should let men go off and have affairs and drive fast cars and dream of being virile – and we should run the world.

Nothing bad is going to happen to us. If we get fired, it’s not failure; its a midlife vocational reassessment.

I think midlife crisis is just a point where people’s careers have reached some plateau and they have to reflect on their personal relationships.

I tend to do something for two years then move on to something new. Yoga, then biking, then weight lifting, then back to biking. The moment it feels like a rut, I switch and search for a new love. It’s like having a midlife crisis, but without the new wife or cheesy BMW.

On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.

Let go of who you think you’re supposed to be and embrace who you are.

Hollywood actresses age in dog years. I’m 25 in the rest of the world, but I’m about 48 in actress years. I’m just around the corner from my midlife crisis.

People may call what happens at midlife ‘a crisis,’ but it’s not. It’s an unraveling – a time when you feel a desperate pull to live the life you want to live, not the one you’re ‘supposed’ to live. The unraveling is a time when you are challenged by the universe to let go of who you think you are supposed to be and to embrace who you are.

Midlife is the time to let go of an overdominant ego and to contemplate the deeper significance of human existence.

Much violence against women originates in emotional territory that they already command. By midlife and early old age, as the hormones of both genders change, women are in total, despotic control of their marriages.

The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.

You know, let a few years go by until I hit my midlife crisis. Then that can be documented on film.

I figure if Doc is right about the time I have left,I should wrap up my adolescence in the next few days, get into my early productive stages about the third week of school, go through my midlife crisis during Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday, redouble my efforts at productivity and think about my legacy, say, Easter, and start cashing in my 401(k)s a couple weeks before Memorial Day.

Midlife crisis begins sometime in your 40s, when you look at your life and think, ‘Is this all?’ And it ends about 10 years later, when you look at your life again and think, ‘Actually, this is pretty good.’

I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there’s the wild, exuberance of youth, there’s the painful agony of midlife experience, there’s the late poetry in the presence of death.

Havin lunch and debatin Ferrari prices. 23 and goin through a midlife crisis.

Middle age is youth without levity, and age without decay.

My career started young and I was really ambitious, and then I had success and I hung out with people who were much older. I think I might have been temporally misplaced, so I thought I was 40. It was a premature midlife crisis.

You know what’s funny? I don’t ever feel the need to escape. I have a strong marriage. I like my life. You hear about these guys having midlife crises – I don’t see that happening to me.

What do you do when the story changes in midlife? When a tale you have told yourself turns out to be a little untrue, just enough to throw the world off-kilter? It’s like leaving the train at the wrong stop: You are still you, but in a new place, there by accident or grace, and you will need your wits about you to proceed.

Have interesting failures…. If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don’t wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve…. Don’t pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God’s sake.

My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.

I’d say imagine that you wake up one morning when you’re going through a midlife crisis. You’re getting divorced. Your kids won’t speak to you. Their faces are covered with acne, and you have to decide why you should get out of bed. That’s the career you should pick. The one that keeps you going no matter what, even if your life is falling apart. That’s how I feel about my career.

As we reach midlife in the middle thirties or early forties, we are not prepared for the idea that time can run out on us, or for the startling truth that if we don’t hurry to pursue our own definition of a meaningful existence, life can become a repetition of trivial maintenance duties.

I spent a good deal of time going back over my childhood, my midlife, to try to understand who I was. We’re supposed to be complete and whole, and you can’t be whole if you’re trying to be perfect. Doing a life review helped me get over the disease to please.

Greatness is never appreciated in youth, called pride in midlife, dismissed in old age, and reconsidered in death. Because we cannot tolerate greatness in our midst, we do all we can do destroy it.

Turn your midlife crisis to your own advantage by making it a time for renewal of your body and mind, rather than stand by helplessly and watch them decline.

The place has had a super-conflicted relationship to its mission. In 1956, it opened as the Museum of Contemporary Crafts. Then in 1986 it had a midlife crisis and changed its name to the American Craft Museum. Then in 2002 the name changed again, this time to the Museum of Arts and Design. Maybe in 2025 the place will be called the Designatorium. The big problem with a museum of craft and design is that all art has craft and design.

There is some debate in professional circles about whether the so-called midlife crisis exists.

Ever heard of the phrase ‘midlife crisis’?

Stages of life are artifacts. Adolescence is a useful contrivance, midlife is a moving target, senior citizens are an interest group, and tweenhood is just plain made up.

We don’t understand life any better at forty than at twenty, but we know it and admit it

Adam and Eve had their midlife Crisis when they realized that they were older than sin!

You really must stop actingLike a 20-year-old, gold platedIn a midlife crisisYou just graduatedHappy 60th